The McCandless types of character is a character who wants be on their own and experience life different everday instead of the usual daily task we repeat over and over again. A character that fits the McCandless type is Mike Yankoski from his book Under the Overpass A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America. He relates to this type of character because Mike leaves almost everything behind from his upper-middle class life to become homeless in the streets of America. Mike does this becasue he wants to test his faith in God and to know that he is the good christian he really thinks he is. This relates to Chris in a way because he had a good life and left all behind to be alone and free and experience life differently and to see if he could survive on his own. Mike oon his journey brought only bag on his back, a guitar in his hand and his friend Sam by his side. Chris only brought a bag with ten pounds of rice, a .22 caliber gun, a camera, and a state road map. Both of these characters brought a minimal ammount of supplies with them along their journies, and granted that Mike had a friend along with him and Chris didn't these characters are both trying to make due with such little supplies as possible.
Yankoski, Mike. Under the Overpass . New York: Multnomah Books, 2005. Print.
Paul Shepard relates to McCandless because Shepard is also an environmentalist who is trying to move away from society. Paul Shepard always has some sort of critique of civilization. He advocates modeling human life styles on those of nomadic prehistoric humans.
Jack London is similar to Chris McCandless in that Chris followed the meanings and purposes that Jack enforced on his trips growing up. Jack was a man who became a tramp and discovered new and beautiful scenery as well as learned lessons through entering the wild and making his own unique achievements. This was done by discovering tactics and such by going through these extreme experiences. Chris was the same way in that they chose this lifestyle because they felt it gave their lives more freedom. Chris started to keep a journal and enjoyed writing just as Jack did on his journeys. Traveling on foot, hitch-hiking and finding people who connected to both Jack and Chris, and traveling on water is what made both of these life-risking men the way they got to their destinations. Having certain challenges while traveling is what made them courageous as well as interesting in their own ways. Both Jack and Chris had a deep connection with animals and wildlife on personal levels.Chris felt he had a variety of similar relations with Jack London which is what made him want to go out into the wild and fulfill his life the way Jack did. Along with that reason, Chris thought doing this out-of-the-ordinary lifestyle would make him feel he had achieved much with himself and the wild like Jack London did.
Chris and the man who lived with bears, Timothy Treadwell, are similar in their many tactics as well. Timothy felt he belonged in the wild with bears because he had felt that connection between him and the wild. This is what led Treadwell to live with the bears in their habitats. From not having enough knowledge and making many mistakes, he died from a bear attack just as Chris died from the supposed lack of knowledge to venge for food, dying of starvation.
Les Stroud, the Survivor man from the Discovery Channel, and Chris are similar in that both of them had grown up with different ambitions, graduating and being involved with the more of society-based activities, but as they both grew up, they realized that their future would be surrounded by the wild. Although Les is surrounded by both society and the wild today, he relates to Chris by living out in different areas of the wild alone, documenting the things he did while surviving by himself by bringing minimal materials and his video camera to show other people his methods of living out in the open.
Yankoski, Mike. Under the Overpass . New York: Multnomah Books, 2005. Print.
Paul Shepard relates to McCandless because Shepard is also an environmentalist who is trying to move away from society. Paul Shepard always has some sort of critique of civilization. He advocates modeling human life styles on those of nomadic prehistoric humans.
Jack London is similar to Chris McCandless in that Chris followed the meanings and purposes that Jack enforced on his trips growing up. Jack was a man who became a tramp and discovered new and beautiful scenery as well as learned lessons through entering the wild and making his own unique achievements. This was done by discovering tactics and such by going through these extreme experiences. Chris was the same way in that they chose this lifestyle because they felt it gave their lives more freedom. Chris started to keep a journal and enjoyed writing just as Jack did on his journeys. Traveling on foot, hitch-hiking and finding people who connected to both Jack and Chris, and traveling on water is what made both of these life-risking men the way they got to their destinations. Having certain challenges while traveling is what made them courageous as well as interesting in their own ways. Both Jack and Chris had a deep connection with animals and wildlife on personal levels.Chris felt he had a variety of similar relations with Jack London which is what made him want to go out into the wild and fulfill his life the way Jack did. Along with that reason, Chris thought doing this out-of-the-ordinary lifestyle would make him feel he had achieved much with himself and the wild like Jack London did.
Chris and the man who lived with bears, Timothy Treadwell, are similar in their many tactics as well. Timothy felt he belonged in the wild with bears because he had felt that connection between him and the wild. This is what led Treadwell to live with the bears in their habitats. From not having enough knowledge and making many mistakes, he died from a bear attack just as Chris died from the supposed lack of knowledge to venge for food, dying of starvation.
Les Stroud, the Survivor man from the Discovery Channel, and Chris are similar in that both of them had grown up with different ambitions, graduating and being involved with the more of society-based activities, but as they both grew up, they realized that their future would be surrounded by the wild. Although Les is surrounded by both society and the wild today, he relates to Chris by living out in different areas of the wild alone, documenting the things he did while surviving by himself by bringing minimal materials and his video camera to show other people his methods of living out in the open.